Michael Parker

coming out of despair

The Lord reveals I’ve been surrounded by His gleaming sanctuary.

I see I’ve been enveloped in the Lord’s luminous light.

His grace empowers me like the sun that governs the day.

Hope is a constant baptism from God’s Holy Spirit.

I look up and see heaven’s perfect sky.

Invoking each of the Lord’s names awakens me.

I no longer run out of prayers.

I am no longer forsaken like a leper.

The Lord prepares me in His glory.

The Lord reveals to me life’s lambent humanity.

The living waters of the Lord fill me like a sea.

The good Samaritans walk me along the path back to Him.

The birds of the sky fill my soul with His hymns. 

I suddenly see the miracles, the miracles, the miracles.

Michael Parker’s poems have appeared in PoetsArtists, Moss Trill, Littoral, Dialogue, New Letters, and more. His poetry collection Divining the Spirits in the House of the Hush and Hush was selected as the Utah State Poetry Society’s Book of the Year in 2021. Michael and his family live in Orem, Utah.